So, apparently, we currently have multiple ongoing attempts by foreign actors to influence the upcoming elections in Australia: - Meta - X - Tiktok - Murdoch - Israel? Our biggest issues start with the media. It will keep getting worse until and unless our pollies show some spine. #auspol

If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time. WWTF: We Watch The Flower.

"That's not how economics works!" Take a look around. It's not fucking working. #bitcoin

It's fear that drives the lust for power. It's hard, it takes more courage than I've got a lot of the time, but love is the cure. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." - MLK

Look no further: go.bsky.app/VrsSid3

What a life.

"Thousands brave the cold in DC to protest the incoming Trump administration." - Jay Kuo More of this please.

I have it on good authority that 'alpha males' don't use social media.

New article out: The People's Currency: How Bitcoin Empowers Financial Independence. 🦉✨ And remember: Decentralization ≠ Deregulation. Bitcoin builds trust through code, not chaos. Ready to explore the future of finance? #Bitcoin #Decentralization www.linkedin.com/pulse/people...

Eunice Newton Foote, was an early climate scientist & one of the first to experimentally determine that CO2 gas could warm the atmosphere. But she was also a prominent advocate for Women's Rights and one of the signers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention 🧪 www.100signersproject.com/signer-profi...

Prince Harry's legal action holds the Murdoch media accountable for 'one of the most squalid episodes in the history of British journalism'. Hacking & 'blagging' violated the privacy of public figures & compromised politicians hostile to Murdoch interests #auspol www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

Holly, my Goldie, would like everyone to know that the sky is barking.

Good morning! Another beautiful sunny day in Melbourne. Love this classic - wondering if it reminds anyone else of anyone in particular. open.spotify.com/track/2DnJjb...

the Tube Of Pain has been updated -->>

You know, TikTok makes a hell of a lot more sense when you're drunk.

"Daft" is a criminally underused adjective. P.S. Please don't forget to take some time away from the doom and gloom to enjoy your life, if and when the opportunity arises.

Check out this result & let me know what you think. Dave Osmond has been running a near real time simulation of a 100% grid for Australia for years by rescaling wind & solar capacity w/ a 1 week lag & minimal storage. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 bsky.app/profile/davi...

I have lost control of the situation.

bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/democr... #Bitcoin #Democrats

Hey, aspiring whistle blowers at Boeing etc. Maybe instead of worrying about suddenly falling out of a window, just remember that Tesla can remotely unlock their doors.

Fossil fuel companies

A Cyberman smoking behind the scenes on the set of Doctor Who in 1968.

Wow. I can no longer post in an r/politics Reddit thread where I was defending Bitcoin against the long-debunked uninformed opinions being shared as 'facts'. The crafty manipulation of public opinion in the media these days is mind blowing. This is how we stay trapped.

Western military leaders are conspicuously absent from the media and politics, while that's exactly where a lot of our money is going.

Fuck politics in Australia is making me angry. The two major parties, both bribed by the mining industry to ignore climate change, eroding our democracy by making it harder for independents to get elected. We need leaders with principles, and more than half a brain. #auspol

Black carbon, a component of particulate air pollution, interferes with the essential bacterial colonization of a bumblebee gut. The primary adhesion of Snodgrassella, a biofilm former, is required for the development and formation of the bee gut microbiome community. 🧪 🌍https://tinyurl.com/bdh4b2jj

Speaking of toxic, old, white, male oligarchs… The world would be better off without most, if not all of them. But this one in particular. 👇

Do skinny people really understand floating?

Hey bots - I wanna know, do you know that you are a bot?

Fucking great day.

Sitting in my pool, drinking my 5th alcohol-infused club soda and smoking, on a beautiful 38 degree (celsius) day in Melbourne. And I just saved a drowning bee. Living the dream. I can hardly believe that people actually go jogging.

You all know that Bitcoin is open source, and has no CEO, right? Distributed systems are antithetical to hierarchies.

I reckon you gotta be suspicious of any analysis that ends with '...because they are stupid/crazy/selfish.' Why are 'they' like that? Can we go one level deeper? If you're not looking into those reasons, you're really just declaring yourself superior.

For pets, it's been an attention economy for a very long time.

As a 'tech bro' I've been both motivated and unmotivated at work. The difference is senior leadership: their vision, empathy, and capacity to compensate fairly. It's the culture at the top that matters. These morons always blame everyone else.

Merry xmas everyone! Hope 2025 delivers everything you're hoping for.

Evil has the advantage of freedom from conscience, but the disadvantage of fighting with itself.

Education is inevitable.

Awesome vs awful - a little bit of awe is ok?

The tooth fairy never asked me for 10% of my wages for life.

I figure there must be a donation amount small enough that it actually costs the recipient money. Like, if someone is paid $20/h and it takes them 5 mins to process a spreadsheet with 1000 donations, then it costs about 0.17c to process each donation. Hm no my evil plan is not going to work.

Me when I was living and working in Palo Alto: "You don't know what I mean when I say 'ta,' do you?" American friend: "I thought you were just grunting at me."

I do love how technology connects people. The downside is being connected to groups of people with seemingly opposite values, who are actively working to move the future in the opposite direction - working against me. When they're loud, they seem numerous. But I think they've always been there.

It is going to be interesting if and when we collectively decide to patch bitcoin to defund dictators. You get to vote on things like that when you run a node, which requires internet and about 1TB of disk space. Out of reach for many, within reach for many, and getting more accessible by the day.

[inhales helium from balloon] Your mom and I are getting a divorce

Northern hemisphere folks never believe be when I tell them the moon is upside down in the southern hemisphere.